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The two-phase Stefan problem describes the temperature distribution in a homogeneous medium undergoing a phase transition such as ice melting to water. This is accomplished by solving the heat equation on a time-dependent domain, composed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-05 Mahir Hadzic , Gustavo Navarro , Steve Shkoller

We study the Cauchy-Dirichlet problem associated to a phase transition modeled upon the degenerate two-phase Stefan problem. We prove that weak solutions are continuous up to the parabolic boundary and quantify the continuity by deriving a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-24 Paolo Baroni , Tuomo Kuusi , Casimir Lindfors , José Miguel Urbano

In this article it is proved the existence of similarity solutions for a one-phase Stefan problem with temperature-dependent thermal conductivity and a Robin condition at the fixed face. The temperature distribution is obtained through a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-22 Andrea N. Ceretani , Natalia N. Salva , Domingo A. Tarzia

In this paper we study the existence of traveling wave solutions for a free-boundary problem modeling the phase transition of a material where the heat is transported by both conduction and radiation. Specifically, we consider a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Elena Demattè , Juan J. L. Velázquez

We consider a probabilistic formulation of a singular two-phase Stefan problem in one space dimension, which amounts to a coupled system of two McKean-Vlasov stochastic differential equations. In the financial context of systemic risk, this…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-04-27 Graeme Baker , Mykhaylo Shkolnikov

Different one-phase Stefan problems for a semi-infinite slab are considered, involving a moving phase change material as well as temperature dependent thermal coefficients. Existence of at least one similarity solution is proved imposing a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-12 Julieta Bollati , Adriana C. Briozzo

We substantially improve in two scenarios the current state-of-the-art modulus of continuity for weak solutions to the $N$-dimensional, two-phase Stefan problem featuring a $p-$degenerate diffusion: for $p=N\geq 3$, we sharpen it to $$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-22 Ugo Gianazza , Naian Liao , José Miguel Urbano

The classical one-phase Stefan problem describes the temperature distribution in a homogeneous medium undergoing a phase transition, such as ice melting to water. This is accomplished by solving the heat equation on a time-dependent domain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-22 Mahir Hadžić , Steve Shkoller

The qualitative behavior of a thermodynamically consistent two-phase Stefan problem with surface tension and with or without kinetic undercooling is studied. It is shown that these problems generate local semiflows in well-defined state…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Jan Pruess , Gieri Simonett , Rico Zacher

The classical Stefan problem, concerning mere heat-transfer during solid-liquid phase transition, is here enhanced towards mechanical effects. The Eulerian description at large displacements is used with convective and Zaremba-Jaumann…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-26 Tomáš Roubíček

Thermodynamically consistent models for two-phase flow in porous media have attracted significant attention in recent years. In this paper, we prove the existence, uniqueness and regularity of the weak solution to such a recent model…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Huangxin Chen , Jisheng Kou , Haitao Leng , Shuyu Sun , Hai Zhao

Many metal manufacturing processes involve phase change phenomena, which include melting, boiling, and vaporization. These phenomena often occur concurrently. A prototypical 1D model for understanding the phase change phenomena is the…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-11 Yavkreet Swami , Jacob Barajas , Amneet Pal Singh Bhalla

We consider the Stefan problem with surface tension, also known as the Stefan-Gibbs-Thomson problem, in an ambient space of arbitrary dimension. Assuming the radial symmetry of the initial data we introduce a novel "probabilistic" notion of…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-03-30 Sergey Nadtochiy , Mykhaylo Shkolnikov

We establish the local continuity of locally bounded weak solutions (temperatures) to the doubly singular parabolic equation modeling the phase transition of a material: \[ \partial_t \beta(u)-\Delta_p u\ni 0\quad\text{ for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Naian Liao

We consider an interacting particle system with two species under strong competition dynamics between the two species. Then, through the hydrodynamic limit procedure for the microscopic model, we derive a one-phase Stefan type free boundary…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-06-02 Kohei Hayashi

In this paper we formulate a Stefan problem appropriate when the thermophysical properties are distinct in each phase and the phase-change temperature is size or velocity dependent. Thermophysical properties invariably take different values…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-04-12 Timothy G. Myers , Matthew G. Hennessy , Marc Calvo-Schwarzwälder

We prove global existence of nonnegative weak solutions to a degenerate parabolic system which models the interaction of two thin fluid films in a porous medium. Furthermore, we show that these weak solutions converge at an exponential rate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-10-31 Joachim Escher , Philippe Laurencot , Bogdan-Vasile Matioc

In this paper we are interested in a rigorous derivation of the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation (K--S) in a Free Boundary Problem. As a paradigm, we consider a two-dimensional Stefan problem in a strip, a simplified version of a solid-liquid…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-07-17 Claude-Michel Brauner , Josephus Hulshof , Luca Lorenzi

In this paper, we represent the exact solution of a two phase inverse spherical Stefan problem, where along with unknown temperature functions heat flux function has to be determined. Suggested solution is obtained from new form of integral…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-03-16 Merey M. Sarsengeldin , Abdullah S. Erdogan , Targyn A. Nauryz , Hassan Nouri

We study the one-dimensional one-phase Stefan problem for the heat equation with a nonlinear boundary condition. We show that all solutions fall into one of three distinct types: global-in-time solutions with exponential decay,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-31 Kensho Araya , Kazuhiro Ishige